The New Context

The Student Journal of International Affairs at The New School

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Agriculture is the Hidden Secret for Latin American-China relations in a Post-COVID World

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The post-COVID world in Latin America will require strategic partnerships that can foster security, equality, and economic growth. Despite possible threats to investment caused by anticipated downturns in global GDP, China’s role and its own response to its role in the coronavirus pandemic, the global turn toward more diverse supply chains due to the massive and ongoing disruptions felt from China, coupled with a nationalist turn in trade and souring relations with the US all pose opportunities for Latin America.

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Para Soledad

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The following documentary was produced in the Fall 2019 “Documentary Traditions and Human Rights” course with Peter Lucas. Para Soledad​ is a film I made with Soledad Mantilla in December of 2019. I wanted to celebrate her life and all […]

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Looking at Nuclear Weapons in Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Nuclear weapons have been around since 1945, when the Manhattan Project finally created a weapon that would end World War II. Since then, these weapons were the subject of Americans’ fear during the Cold War, and then both a taboo […]

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Buscador: 3 Months in Cuba by Andrew Long

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Student Andrew Long spent 9 weeks in Cuba as part of the International Field Program. While there, he documented his experiences and reflections through colorful drawings, collages, and writing. Below he shares pages from Buscador, a booklet he put together […]

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Housing Conditions and Psychological Impact

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The lack of affordable, accessible and quality housing has always been a major concern in Cape Town. In the past, researchers have focused their work on the most common forms of poor housing conditions including sanitation, lack of potable water, […]

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Ecovillages: A Conceivable Future

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We live in a fantastically complex age in which we must analyze and challenge the very foundations of modernity. Our ultimate authorities invest a majority of its funds in the military and do little to support the safety and life […]

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Whose Child is it Anyway?

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“Years later I discovered that the United States had been crossed thousands of times by frightened Black children traveling alone to their newly affluent parents in Northern cities, or back to grandmothers in Southern towns when the urban North reneged […]

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Books Are My Weapon: A documentary

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Alice Obar (’14) is an alumnus of the Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs. Last year, she produced and directed Books Are My Weapon, a short documentary about Brooklyn librarian Donald Peebles and his work in advocating for the homeless. […]

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Mainstreaming Menstruation

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Between calling it “time of the month,” “Aunt Flo,” or even “Shark Week,” we’ve come up with endless euphemisms to avoid that dreaded word: period. That’s partly why, when director Rayka Zehtabchi accepted the Oscar for Best Documentary Short at […]

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The Tip of the Tip of the Iceberg: Trump’s Rhetoric on Migration

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There are three medium to long term options for the victims of large scale displacement: integration, resettlement or voluntary repatriation. Let’s be clear here, according to UNHCR figures, only 1% of those that are displaced will be resettled in a […]

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ISIS and the Neoliberal State

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The Universal State and the Universal Threat The rise of the Islamic State has united the various actors in the Middle East and North Africa that are otherwise fighting tooth and nail against each other throughout the scorched battlefields of […]

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Call for Content: Hurricane Sandy

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Last week, from the Caribbean to New York City and beyond, millions of people endured Hurricane Sandy’s wrath. Photographs and video footage alike have captured her destruction and the aftermath. These images remain difficult to comprehend, especially for those who were […]

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